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Bone Marrow Fluid Sample Collection

Nebraska rates for HCPCS 38220

This procedure withdraws a small liquid sample of bone marrow, usually from the hip bone, using a needle. The sample is examined to evaluate blood-forming cells for conditions such as anemia, infection, or certain blood cancers.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Bone Marrow Fluid Sample Collection cost?

$4,222

Typical total for the visit. In Nebraska, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $4,222 for this procedure. That total is two separate charges: $148 to the doctor who performs it, and $4,074 to the hospital or surgery center where it takes place. Done somewhere without a facility charge, you pay only the first.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 6 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

What's inside this number

Part of the billTypicalRange
Physician feeThe doctor who performs it$148$85.11 to $347
Facility feeThe hospital or surgery center$4,074$2,188 to $8,511

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $4,074 · 10th to 90th $302 to $13,490Professionalmedian $148 · 10th to 90th $60 to $380
$50$200$1K$5K$20Kfacility $4,074professional $148

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$2,187.76
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$14,454.40
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$35.48
Median
$144.54
Typical High
$912.01
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4,677.35
Median
$6,025.60
Typical High
$11,748.98
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$77.62
Median
$141.25
Typical High
$295.12
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$125.89
Median
$213.80
Typical High
$467.74
Medica
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$81.28
Median
$251.19
Typical High
$2,691.53
Medica
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$204.17
Median
$331.13
Typical High
$6,918.31
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$346.74
Typical High
$478.63
Midlands
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$147.91
Median
$147.91
Typical High
$346.74
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$107.15
Median
$2,041.74
Typical High
$5,248.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$97.72
Median
$204.17
Typical High
$407.38

Where Nebraska sits

The same service costs 20.2 times more in Indiana than in West Virginia. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Physician feeFacility fee

Nebraska· 6th of 50

$4,222

$148 physician + $4,074 facility

IN $5,765WV $286

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.